#but Where lies the strangling fruit that dangles from the hand of the sinner

[eldintower]

i truly think there is something quite compelling about miquella abandoning all of his fears at the culmination of all he's worked for and in that moment imagining malenia- fearless malenia- and all his doubts & vacillations- steadfast malenia- like malenia being what miquella is trying to reach in becoming a god. and of course the other way around- "he is the most fearsome empyrean of all". i think when faced with a loveless miquella and miquella's shed love, malenia would not even think twice. she would choose miquella. Ugh god. and as miquella shed parts of himself, so to does malenia (although i think millicent is different from trina. a new form of life. the swamp of aeonia as a giant receptacle/rot crucible- she's like the rot equivalent of a jar gestalt baby. plants growing in pots lol). forever mirrored. and when miquella is god for a moment, malenia is god in an age that will come in time as the rot spreads further and further past the burning wall into limgrave. Gah!!